The assumption is that this decision is due to the relatively disappointing box office returns from Solo, which opened lower than every Star Wars movie since Revenge Of The Sith. It still made a ton of money, but it didn’t make Last Jedi money (or even Rogue One money), so it would make sense for Lucasfilm to want to avoid allowing any kind of narrative to develop about people being sick of Star Wars—as if such a thing were possible.

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There’s also the fact that both Solo and Rogue One had a hard time actually getting made, with Rogue One only coming together as well as it did because of last-minute reshoots and original Solo directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller getting replaced by Ron Howard way into production. Then there’s Josh Trank, who was making a Boba Fett movie in 2015 but had to drop out, either because he didn’t want to face the pressure of making a Star Wars spin-off or because of reports that he had “erratic” behavior on the set of Fantastic Four. After all of that, it would make sense for Lucasfilm to want to focus on more straightforward projects that make easy money.